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splatter Definition

splat·ter (splatər)

noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb

spatter or splash

Etymology: altered (infl. by splash) < spatter

splatter Usage Examples

Object

  • paint: You can give older children toothbrushes to splatter paint or drinking straws to blow paint about on a page.
  • blood: Secondly is a murder scene where a woman, fleeing the machete wielding killer, splatters blood across a bright white wall.
  • movie: Their drummer, Anton the Impaler, describes their sound as " the sonic equivalent of a ' 70s splatter movie.
  • film: You'll be having your favorite beach babes, football teams or films splattered across your pocket PC in no time.
  • effect: Tom Rutter provides the impressive splatter effects which are used just enough to impress without falling into gratuitous silliness.
  • wall: Then a hail of gunfire splattered the wall behind him.

Preposition: on

  • wall: The court heard how he had left blood splattered on the kitchen walls, floor and utensils.
  • ground: Trouble is, with October away an ' the last leaves splattered on the ground, the warm weather tends to vanish.

Modifying Another Word

  • everywhere: The cover over the tank did not close properly when the coil was in place, so fluid could splatter everywhere.
  • all: Better to use a low output Tesla coil, which generates high voltage splattered all over the RF spectrum.
  • liberally: Techies are also to blame with CVs being liberally splattered with teh agile word without any actual experience.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • around: A lot of blood gets splattered around without anyone getting too badly hurt or taking too much offense.
  • out: If not, the nozzle becomes blocked, and the slip can splatter out when extra pressure is applied.

Preposition: in

  • blood: The confession of Rudolf Hoess, Kommandant at Auschwitz, is literally splattered in blood.

Preposition: of

  • blood: Barry had a tiny splatter of blood on his face.
  • paint: My best work was " Rainy Day At The Seaside, " a random splattering of paint over paper.

Preposition: with

  • blood: Each victim had been stabbed 15 to 20 times, leaving the walls of the small monk's chamber splattered with blood.
  • paint: The latest news says the Italian Embassy was splattered with red paint a couple of days later.
  • mud: Even on the bus, I could see the scratches and tired designs splattered with mud.

Preposition: across

  • screen: Instead, if you are hit by an ax, or are shot, you get a blood splatter across the screen.

Browse dictionary entries near splatter

  1. splat
  2. splashy
  3. splashdown
  4. splashboard
  5. splash guard
  6. splash
  7. splanchnology
  8. splanchno-
  9. splanchnic
  10. spiv
  1. splay
  2. splayed
  3. splayfoot
  4. spleen
  5. spleenful
  6. spleenwort
  7. splen-
  8. splendent
  9. splendid
  10. splendidly